Cloudfare launches the 1.1.1.1 for public DNS with fastest speed and security. Finally we’ve got an important development in the field of consumer internet. Recently Cloudfare has announced its own Domain Name Service (DNS) and good news is it’s publicly available for use. According to the company, its 1.1.1.1 DNS is the “fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service”.
Well, that’s some really interesting and valuable. The company is famous for its security services and this is a great development, particularly for those who have more concerns regarding security.
In this regard, Cloudfare Launches the 1.1.1.1 DNS Server and company claims to resolve countless issues present related to ISP issued DNS.
How it works?
We all use internet in our daily routine but only a few of us understand how it works. Well, for the uninitiated, DNS (Domain Name Service) is one of the building blocks of how users access the internet on a daily basis.
When we use different websites, there information is stored on a server. This server has an exclusive and unique IP address requested by the browser when you write the site’s address in it. The browser brings into play a side of the DNS network named as the ‘Resolver’. The Resolver DNS is accountable to run queries by the Root, TLD and Authoritative name servers correspondingly. Then it provides with the appropriate IP address for a website’s name we asked for.
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Now, for an average user, the DNS lookup service is set by default or provided by the ISP (Internet Service Provider). This allows the ISP to keep a track of all WebPages visited by a user, which ruffles some feathers as you’d expect.
Now in order to solve all the privacy related problems Cloudfare partners up with APNIC (the regional internet registry for Asia Pacific), to present 1.1.1.1 as a proper DNS resolver.
According to the company’s CEO,
“We offered Cloudflare’s network to receive and study the garbage traffic (on 1.1.1.1) in exchange for being able to offer a DNS resolver on the memorable IPs. And, with that, 1.1.1.1 was born.”
On the other hand, many people already used 1.1.1.1 as a dummy address, which is the data referred to by Mathew Prince, CEO Cloudfare.
Another plus point about 1.1.1.1 is it supports both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPs.
The foremost purpose behind this initiative is to overcome the issues of privacy and data security. Of course, if users do migrate to 1.1.1.1 then Cloudfare will know what they’re accessing on the internet as someone has to store your data access, whether it’s an ISP or Cloudfare.
However, this is beneficial for the internet and a protocol which wants radical updates in today’s privacy conscious environment.
